Is there a way to exclude a specific version when installing a package from pypi using pip?

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In my local pypi server let's say I have 3 versions of the package example like below:

example==20200903
example==20200904 
example==202009089 # I need to exclude this
example==20200909

As you can see I have used date to manage our versioning, but in the middle of the versioning we have a package that has a version like 202009089 so it always match as it has a bigger number and the versioning gets broken. Is there a way to exclude that specific version when installing via pip install and install the latest version except 202009089?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 08 '20 at 07:28

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You can:

pip install "example<202000000"

It will pick the last version before the erroneous one: 202009089.

Related answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8811418/4709400

answered Sep 08 '20 at 07:28

stellasia

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '20 at 07:33

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One approach would be to number future versions using a new epoch (PEP440)

For example

version='1!20200910

another option is to delete the offending package from your internal pypi

another option is to select example!=202009089 (the bad version) or pin using example==... (some good version)

answered Sep 08 '20 at 07:33

Anthony Sottile

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`pip install example!=202009089` will install the latest version and also ignores the bad version. I will go this way as I do not have access to pypi server. – Alireza Sep 08 '20 at 07:39

Is there a way to exclude a specific version when installing a package from pypi using pip?

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